{"product_id":"extreme-north-9780393881004","title":"Extreme North","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" German historian of culture and science Bernd Brunner, in his book\u003cem\u003e Extreme North\u003c\/em\u003e, weaves a darker tapestry, layering legends over the science and history of the north to describe a place that is real, remote, inscrutable and cold.\" -- Josie Glausiusz - Nature\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of curiosities… There may not be a great deal of sunniness here, or for that matter warmth, but the book makes up for that with fascinating anecdotes, useful digressions and little nuggets of interest.\" -- James Lovegrove - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Brunner’s own cabinet of curiosities offers both a delightful series of vignettes of the north, including Mary Wollstonecraft’s description of the perpetual summer light as the ‘noon of the night’, and a gallery of the preconceptions and agendas which successive visitors have carried with them...Brunner’s work is a dizzying tour of the ways in which successive ages have engaged with the idea of the north… More than anything, though, the book is a reminder that the north is both a place and a perspective.\" -- Philip Parker - Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\"In 31 chapters, each as self-contained and pointed as a shard of ice, Brunner presents a different historic, political, natural or cultural facet of his subject... Thought-provoking and wide-ranging, Extreme North resembles the 'cabinet of wonders' that he uses as the book’s embarkation point.\" -- Liesl Schillinger - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Engaging… Those who seek out cultural histories to see the world through a strange new lens may particularly enjoy the section exploring how the North was misperceived in antiquity.\" -- Cal Flyn - Times Literary Supplement","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402030031191,"sku":"9780393881004","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393881004.jpg?v=1730479191","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extreme-north-9780393881004","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}